On September 21, 1917, a little over five months after the U.S. formally entered World War I, the first 361 […]
Paul Davis: The Navy Yard — past, present, and future
A look back at the Philadelphia Navy Yard as Governor Shapiro and the commonwealth invest $30 million in the future of the Navy Business District
By Paul Davis
Dire wolves in Philadelphia? Well, maybe.
Imagine this, Philadelphians. You venture across an ocean in the 17th and 18th century to make your home in the […]
Chris Gibbons: The box in the attic
The dishes arrived from Bavaria at the Girard Avenue home in Philadelphia of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Kilisky in mid-June […]
Kyle Sammin: Trump isn’t an outlier — he’s the culmination of a trend
At Donald Trump’s address to Congress in January, Rep. Melanie Stansbury (D-NM) held up a sign for the cameras that […]
Eric Tuwalski: What did Philadelphia learn from the 1997 Summit for America’s Future?
I wonder how many people in our region remember the President’s Summit for America’s Future that took place in April […]
Michael Thomas Leibrandt: And to the earth we shall return
Of all of Philadelphia’s old churches — some dating back to the very start of European colonization around the resource-rich […]
Thom Nickels: 19th-century Philadelphia’s macabre, union-organizing novelist
Lippard makes Poe look like Mother Goose.
By Thom Nickels
Michael Thomas Leibrandt: Philadelphia’s college basketball team that might have won it all
The story of the 1968–69 La Salle Explorers begins in an unexpected place. It doesn’t begin with the story of Tom Gola […]
Why Philly has clean water to drink
A legacy of brilliant engineering and hard labor.
By Richard Koenig